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Theresa
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 Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:34 pm Death of airline passenger subdued by other passengers probe |
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| Quote: | Monday, March 21, 2005 Posted: 10:11 AM EST (1511 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Prosecutors are investigating the death of a man who was subdued by several fellow airline passengers after he became disruptive on a New York-bound flight, a spokesman said Sunday.
William Lee was pronounced dead late Friday after he was removed from the American Airlines flight at Kennedy International Airport. The cause of death had not yet been determined and was under investigation.
Lee, 48, of New York, stood up in his seat on American's Flight 4 from Los Angeles and "loudly demanded another beer," airline spokesman Tim Smith said.
Flight attendants asked him to wait until they reached his row, Smith said, but the man "got very, very belligerent and loud and disruptive and was told he would not be served any more alcohol."
The purser tried to calm him down, but he pushed her aside to get to the aisle, the spokesman said.
Seven other male passengers restrained Lee, who was a large man, and they and the flight crew put flexible handcuffs on him and put him back in his seat, Smith said.
Lee got out of his seat again and the seven passengers held him on his back on the galley floor until the plane landed, Smith said. He said he had heard reports the men were members of a rugby team but said he couldn't yet confirm that.
After the landing, Port Authority police boarded the plane and administered CPR to Lee, who "was in some kind of distress," Smith said.
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webtaz99
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| Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:53 pm |
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Wouldn't it have been a lot simpler to give him his beer?
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Theresa
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| Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:56 pm |
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It's illegal to be intoxicated while in flight. Or at least to board a plane that way. And belligerence... not acceptable at all.
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Beta6
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| Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:18 pm |
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flexi hand cuffs? It's nice to know that the airlines are going to protect you from a threat with those types of things. Kinda scarry.
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borgslayer
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| Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:20 pm |
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If its true then those guys in that rugby team are in a lot of trouble. 
I don't mean to be joking in this matter but its just wierd when a rugby team kills a man accidentally.
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Beta6
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| Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:02 am |
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well I doubt they tried to kill him accidentally or purposly, But If you are on an airplane.. and there is this guy raising hell, and is a major threat to you and your surroundings, Then yea I would have done the same thing, and beat his *beep*. I hope they did not take it to the extreme and beat him beyond reason. But accidents do happen. But he probably had a heart attack or sumthin...
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Jeremy
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| Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:40 am |
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It's almost the same storyline as an episode of CSI... weird.
I wonder what happened to make him go into stress?
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webtaz99
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| Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:55 pm |
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I guess he REALLY needed that beer. 
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:38 pm |
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| Jeremy wrote: | It's almost the same storyline as an episode of CSI... weird.
I wonder what happened to make him go into stress? |
That was a good episode, 
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